Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Optimized Feedstock Aggregation and Blending at Scale

March 16, 2025 | Jim Lane

In this presentation, researchers chart the progress of a project focused on identifying cost-effective opportunities to deploy transformational clean energy technologies to treat organic wastes. It involves optimized conversion and biorefinery siting analysis, and characterizes the impacts of key assumptions on feedstock prices. The project uses a geospatially explicit, micro-economic optimized siting analysis, coupling experimental […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Natural Gas Production via Chemical Looping Gasification

March 11, 2025 | Jim Lane

In this presentation, researchers chart the progress of a project focused on a sorbent-enhanced chemical looping gasification (SE-CLG) technology for renewable natural gas production from biomass wastes. The technology integrates biomass gasification, air separation, and syngas conditioning into a single circulating fluidized bed gasifier. The project involves designing multi-functional, mixed oxide-based phase transition sorbents (PTS) […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Mobile Bioreactor Systems for Renewable Natural Gas Production

March 9, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation by Kevin Harrison from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory aims to scale down a hydrogen-biomethanation system into a mobile RD&D platform to enable faster research, IP development & validation, and improved gas mass transfer to reduce the cost of RNG via biomethanation. Operational data from commissioning a 700L system showed achievement of 98% […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Marine Fuels

March 2, 2025 | Jim Lane

This deck provides a brief overview of the shipping industry, highlighting its significant role in global trade and its substantial contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. The presentation deck emphasizes the need for sustainable marine fuels to reduce the industry’s environmental impact, outlining the challenges and potential solutions. It discusses the current generation of marine engines […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbon Recycling International

February 23, 2025 | Jim Lane

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) is a company that specializes in developing and operating commercial-scale plants for the production of e-methanol, a low-carbon fuel that can be used to create sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). CRI was founded in 2006 and has a global presence with plants in Iceland, Germany, Sweden, China, and the United States. The […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to TerViva

February 7, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck highlights Terviva’s efforts to use the pongamia tree as a sustainable biofuel feedstock. Terviva argues that pongamia is uniquely suited to a climate-changing world, as it’s a low-carbon, scalable, and cost-competitive crop with diverse applications. The presentation deck showcases Terviva’s expertise in pongamia cultivation, its robust supply chain across three continents, and […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbon Recycling

January 31, 2025 | Jim Lane

This is a presentation given by Lotte Rosenberg, CEO of Carbon Recycling International (CRI), at the ABLC San Francisco conference in October 2024. It highlights CRI’s role in decarbonizing transportation through their innovative technology that transforms captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into sustainable methanol. The presentation showcases CRI’s global leadership with multiple plants in operation and […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the Virtual Institute of Feedstocks of the Future

January 26, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck outlines the Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future (VIFF), a collaborative initiative funded by the Schmidt Sciences philanthropy and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR). The initiative aims to accelerate the development and use of underutilized biomass as alternative feedstocks for biomanufacturing. VIFF’s mission is achieved through five research […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the BioFuture Campaign

January 19, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck outlines the Biofuture Campaign’s strategy to promote sustainable fuels and chemicals (SFC) on a global scale. The campaign, spearheaded by the Molecule Group, aims to integrate SFC technologies into international policy frameworks like the G7, G20, and Clean Energy Ministerial. The presentation deck highlights key milestones, such as the G20 Energy Ministers’ […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the Corn to Chemicals Summit

January 12, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck details the proceedings of the 2024 Corn to Chemicals Summit, highlighting efforts to increase demand for corn by exploring new uses beyond traditional applications like ethanol, feed, and export. The summit features the Radicle Challenge, a $1.5 million investment competition seeking innovative technologies and business models to create sustainable, long-term demand for […]

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